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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“My heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition. I dared not think that they would turn them from me with disdain and horror.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

“Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.
”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.”
― Sappho

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
― Sappho

“you came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Love shook my heart
Like the wind on the mountain
rushing over the oak trees.”
― Sappho

“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
― Sappho

“I have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were dead
When she left, she wept
a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."

I said, "Go, and be happy
but remember (you know
well) whom you leave shackled by love

"If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared

"all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck

"myrrh poured on your head
and on soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them

"while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song...”
― Sappho

“You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.”
― Sappho

“I know not what to do, my mind is divided”
― sappho

“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”
― Sappho

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I just want to not be me.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story